While raising a number of valid concerns about the external assessment of PhDs in the UK, Chris Hackley seems to take consumer sovereignty beyond its limits (if it is indeed appropriate to education...
For those of us who have long been active in developing educational and research provision beyond these shores, it is heartening to learn that David Willetts, the universities and science minister,...
I welcome Times Higher Education's argument that we don't just need more British students to study abroad: we need to encourage a wider range of universities to support student mobility as part of...
The University of Southampton's Centre for Global Englishes is to be welcomed ("A word of advices: let speakers of Englishes do it their way, UK told", News, 17 May). Much as the tradition of British...
Regarding "Pianist wants comeback as review hits bum notes" (News, 10 May).I am currently organising a short season of recitals involving professional musicians to be funded by business sponsorship...
I very much enjoyed the eulogy of Van Morrison by neuropsychiatrist Ray Dolan ("And he stoned me", Features, 24 May). But maybe that is because I too am a long-time "Van the Man" fan.Yet, while...
Mary Evans' "Heartbreak hotels" (Opinion, 24 May) served little purpose. The appropriate reaction to the lamentable "service" she described was: first, complain to the hotel manager face to face and...
Helen Sword's book Stylish Academic Writing has an interesting title. Could you publish a review of the contents? ("Prose to die for, by the Spade-ful", Books, 3 May).Martyn Thomas, London
One of the world's leading experts on sleep has died.Ian Oswald was born in London on 4 August 1929. He was educated in the capital and at the Herbert Strutt grammar school in Belper, Derbyshire -...
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University of East LondonDresses to impressBudding fashion designers presented their work to the Queen during a stop on her Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK. Mikaela Cephinis, a foundation textiles and...
Rat race to the bottom - Unhealthy competition gnaws away at university values
Peregrination gives way to contemplation in a beautifully wrought travelogue, finds Timothy Mowl
Barriers to entering many professions are being reinforced by employers who recruit from a small cohort of socially exclusive universities, according to the government鈥檚 independent reviewer of...
Agricultural sciences, physics, mathematics and chemistry have been identified as 鈥渧ulnerable鈥 by Australia鈥檚 chief scientist.